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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	Small Pleasures Episode 19: Sarah Hall 'Mrs Fox' and Jackie Kay 'My Daughter the Fox'	05 mai 2025	00:17:05
Two fabulous tales.
	Small Pleasures Episode 18: Tom Conaghan's 'Reverse Engineering' Anthology	28 sept. 2024	00:28:12
Tom Conaghan’s inspirational anthology, Reverse Engineering, a great resource for writers and teachers!
	Small Pleasures Episode 17: Ruby Cowling 'Emeralds Live'	13 mars 2024	00:19:53
Ruby Cowling's extraordinary realisms
	Small Pleasures Episode 16: Michel Faber 'Some Rain Must Fall' and 'The Fahrenheit Twins'	18 févr. 2024	00:45:18
The visionary worlds of Michel Faber.
	Small Pleasures Episode 15: Albertine Sarrazin	12 nov. 2023	00:34:06
Two stories of resistance and subversion.
	Small Pleasures Episode 14: Ailsa Cox’s Cocky Watchman	01 oct. 2023	00:24:33
A complex and multi-layered short story, about a place haunted by the past.
	Small Pleasures Episode 13: Clare Louise Bennett’s Finishing Touch and Control Knobs	18 juin 2023	00:20:02
A discussion of two great short stories from 'Pond' by Claire-Louise Bennett
	Small Pleasures Episode 12 Maxim Osipov’s ’Big Opportunities’	08 mai 2023	00:18:27
A short story about a whole nation.
	Small Pleasures Episode 11 Louise Erdrich’s ’The Shawl’	09 avr. 2023	00:20:19
Possibly the best short story ever written...
	Small Pleasures Episode 10 Lucia Berlin’s ’Dear Conchi’	05 mars 2023	00:32:47
Today we discuss the epistolary short story ‘Dear Conchi’, with our first guest, Lucia Berlin expert, Nina Ellis.
	Small Pleasures Episode 9 Idza Luhumyo’s Five Years Next Sunday	22 janv. 2023	00:28:24
The 2022 Caine Prize winning short story from Idza Luhumyo.
	Small Pleasures Episode 8 Jon McGregor’s The Singing	18 déc. 2022	00:27:04
A consummately skilful and nuanced short story about loss.
	Small Pleasures Episode 7 Anna Seghers’ The Dead Girls Class Trip	13 nov. 2022	00:31:22
A dramatically intense and innovative short story about the devastating effects of Fascism.
	Small Pleasures Episode 6: Leila Aboulela’s ’Missing Out’	22 oct. 2022	00:28:21
A sensitive and complex story about the pressures on a young couple who move to a foreign country, with a different culture and religious faith.
	Small Pleasures Episode 5: Daniel Mason’s ’Death of the Pugilist’	11 sept. 2022	00:27:55
'Death of the Pugilist, or the Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw' is the extraordinary story of a bareknuckle fight in 19th century England.
	Small Pleasures Episode 4: Sheila Armstrong ’Red Market’	11 sept. 2022	00:22:49

	Small Pleasures Ep 3: Tessa Hadley’s ’Bad dreams’	24 juil. 2022	00:24:20
'Bad Dreams’ is a supremely skilful and multi-layered short story about how a young girl's nightmare intrudes into reality. Hadley, Tessa, ‘Bad Dreams’ collected in Bad Dreams, (London: Jonathan Cape, 2017).
	Small Pleasures Episode 2: Graham Mort’s ’A Walk in the Snow’	24 juil. 2022	00:25:09
Powerful and brilliant imagery juxtaposes a couple walking in the snow in northern England with the vigil of a mother at her son’s hospital bed in war-torn Iraq. Mort, Graham, ‘A Walk in the Snow’ collected in Touch (Bridgend: Seren, 2010).
	Small Pleasures Episode 1: Alice Munro’s ’The Children Stay’	24 juil. 2022	00:28:54
‘The Children Stay’ is a short story about a young wife who takes the role of Eurydice in an amateur theatrical production, with life-changing consequences. Munro, Alice, ‘The Children Stay’ collected in The Love of a Good Woman (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998).

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